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System of communications GUARDING AGAINST BREAK (F.0.P.R.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 5. In a statement to-day the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, said that steps had been taken to ensure above all that there should be no break in the system of communications between the Government and essential points both overseas and in New Zealand. In particular, the fullest protection had been made for the carrying on of cipher work and essential telephonic communications in time of emergency. Coding and ciphering was a 24-hour service which had been maintained day and night ever since before the war broke out. These communications would be all the more necessary in time of emergency, Mr Fraser said, and to run the risk of their being cut, even for a moment, was quite impossible. Moreover, it was essential that the War Cabinet should be able to function in Wellington at all times of the day or night in any circumstances, and steps had been taken to provide suitable accommodation as in all other countries at war to enable those functions to be carried on without break or confusion.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24834, 6 February 1942, Page 4
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184A VITAL LINK Otago Daily Times, Issue 24834, 6 February 1942, Page 4
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